, 1887-12-28
THE GREAT STRIKE.
Running of Trains Resumed
On the Reading Road.
The Company Refuse to Rein.
state the Strikers.
Heavy SnowStorm in Kansas
Trains Showed Up.

morning, aud no further trouble is antici-
pated. Nearly all the employees reported
ior duty promptly at I o'clock at the varl-
GUS depOts and freight yards, as well as
those employed at the coal wharyes at
Port Richmond.
READING, Dec. 27.-So promptly we're
the coal cars takeL on the Port Richmond
and unloaded that tonight the first empty
coal trains passed through Reading bound
Tor the coal regions. The most exciting
scenes of the strike were witnessed this
afternoon when about twenty five old
Brotherhood engineers who were Obliged
10 leave the companys employ in 1877
were given engines and permanent posi-.
tons. They took the places OF the en-
glneers who either failed to report because
they live too far away or had refused TO
take their engines and we're peremptorily
discharged. Every man who had during
The past week refused to obey orders or
had lett his post because Of the Knights
OF Labor orders, were refused employ
ment. There were quite a large number
OF these and some Of the appeals made to
get back were pitlful to behold. Non.
union men ready to take the strikers
places filled Reading to-day from neigh
boring towns by hundreds.
louisville, Pa, Dec. 27.-From
some cause the order to the Reading
strikers at this point to return to work
lid not reach here until the middle of the
forenoon, and when the crews belonging
TO the Palo Alto terminals reported for
duty they found that several trains had
been sent out with new crews, and they
we're informed that under the orders Of
Manager Mcleod they. could not be ,aken
IN. a meeting of assembly 1859 was
called and the assembly was declared
licked u Port Richmond assembly
was called on to stand by them, and an
appeal was made to Superintendent Swei-
gard to countermand The action of the
ralo Alto dispatcher.
lhe committee sent to Phil .delphia To
confer with Superintendent Sweigard in
reference to the resumption of the strikers.
returned this evening and reported that
Sweigard had insisted upon the peremp-
tory discharge of the committee who first
waited upon him with reference to the
Port Richmond trouble, together with the
hive crews who refused to handle -four
cals. The committee consented and tn, n
asked a guarantee that the other strikers
would be reemplOyed. This Superinten-
HSHs hNi5alh lCluoCu duu Ilt conference
abruptly terminated.
ms report greatly incensed the meet
ing and as "a result the committee left here
tonight Tor all points south as far as
Philadelphia and north to Tamaoua
and Mahonoy Plane to appeal
10 local assemblies to stand by the dis
charged strikers, and 1t is expected that a
general tle-up along the whole line will be
tnaugurated Tomorrow.
A meeting Of the Reading employees
convention. composed of represel ~tatives
0t railroad employees and miners at the
Reading Coal and Iron company's col
Ilerlcs will assemble in Reading on Thurs
lay, at which. it is intimated by leading
knights Of Labor, that unless a settle
nent Is reached the miners will be ordered
TO strike and passenger crews called Il
Intense interest Is telt IN the del elop
ments OF to morrow morning.
SHAMoKIN, Pa Dec 27.-The Read
ing strikers at this point refused to return
TO work to-day because the company
would not re employ Dispatcher Huntley,
master workman OF IN assembly, and sew
raj laborers GU the coal dock who have
been DISCHARGED 1t is not possible to
move Goa or loo Il freight traffic under the
resent cir um lances and therefore the
colllerles will not be worked to morrow.
Considerable i'll feeling is manifested.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec, PA circular
was issued from the general office of the
Reading company this afternoon, ad
dressed to General Manager Mcleod, set
ing forth that the strike has de eloped
The fact that many old aud faithful EN-
ployes had been compelled by others to
Iuin an organization known as the Knights
Of Labor. The circular further saws.
While the Reading railroad
has never objected to its employees
voluntarily connecting themselves with
any labor organization they may see fit to
JOIN, 1t will protect them at any cost from
being forced into any union where their
W wish would be to remain free, and
any emploYe guilty of using any undue
or Improper influence to force men to
lOin any society against their free will,
will upon proof furnished be instantly
dismissed from the service and never al
lowed to return to it.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. PA special
from Reading says: The strike has de
velOped the existence OF an unpleasant
sentiment between the Knights of Labor
and the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
g%ineers. The latter, it is reliably stated,
offered to furnish all men that might be
needed TO take IL trains. There are I75
engineers in this city and vicinity all
brotherhood men who were discharged
by a former president of the Reading
railroad, Franklin b. Gowen. Their
places were taken by non union men who
now belong to the Knights Of Labor.
The latter were then known as "scabs''
and for a long time there was a bitter
feeling IN the community against them,
especially as the riots during the strike of
1887 in this city resulted in an attack by
the 4th regiment of n. G. b, in which
about twelve men were killed and seventy
five or eighty wounded. The families
which suffered aud their sympathizers
have never forgiven the men who took the
place of the brotherhood envincers. All
engineers employed on the Reading rail
road prior to the trouble of 1877 are being
heard from. They desire to return to
first love" and were anxious for
revenge.